Leveraging Solaris 10 ZFS Functionality for ESXi

Posted on December 11, 2008 by mordtech

With the decision of VMware to release the ESXi version of the industry leading hypervisor for free, one might wonder where else can I save money and still get enterprise level performance. One area is in the storage. The Solaris ZFS file system is a great starting point for small businesses looking to move into [...]

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VMware ESXi guest unknown (invalid)

Posted on November 3, 2008 by mordtech

First, A little background of my home network; I have a two system network consisting of Dell workstation. The first runs ESXi 3.5 Update 2 and the second runs Open Solaris 2008.05. I utilize the ZFS for both the root and the data drives. I use an NFS share for my ESX datastore. Well today, [...]

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